Thread: SI in Aus Military

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

I take it that this vehicle is a pommy vehicle as there weren't many Australian Military Land Rovers in the series 1 era?

Diana

I undertsand that there were no actual series 1s in Australian military service. There were a couple that were trialled or considered to be prototypes that were used by the military but they never actually went into service. There were also some ceremonial vehicles but I believe these were considered to be Commonealth vehicles rather than Military vehicles.

There were UK MOD vehicles in Australia mainly for use in the atomic bomb tests.

I had a mil series 1 for one week two years ago - maybe I should try to buy it back - it is still local. It had the military headlights, lifted suspension, nato plug and the various brackets on the front.

Garry

Garry

Military versus Commonwealth? As far as I know, the trials vehicles were not in military service but actually had ARN. Even the 81" which wore British MoD Rego numbers for the tropical trials was issued with an ARN from Australia. It does seem that the 81 at least remained somewhere until 1963 when it disposed. Whether it was in-service is anyone's guess.

The other issue, while we understand that Navy vehicles are not "military" per se they are in service for naval use and were until very recently issued with Commonwealth plates, either the C or the ZNA, ZNB, ZNC, ... for the later ones.

Regarding the one local to you, If you REALLY wanted to have an-ex-Mil S1 that would be the way to go, but I bet the price would have gone up. There was a chassis and ID tags of another pommy one on ebay recently. If you had the NATO bits you could build it up nicely, but a headache for someone else.

Diana